nod 'n' smile

By the time we reached Lake Victoria in Tanzania, we had already spent four days traveling, first aboard a plane and then aboard a bus. So as we arrived at our first campsite on the afternoon of the fifth day, I was itching to explore and immerse myself into the local culture rather than simply [...]

Well, these won’t be the best photos you’ve ever seen. But as part of my Great Adventures That Weren’t week (posts here and here), they seemed appropriate to share. How’s that for an enticing lead-in for a post? Since I’m interesting in visiting most places in the world, it generally takes very little to convince [...]

Well, after reading the title of this post, you may be relieved (or disappointed) to hear that this isn’t actually my story. It’s my boyfriend’s. The boyfriend you keep hearing about in my posts. Unfortunately, while the boyfriend is still in the round-the-world trip closet until we leave next year, he will continue to make [...]

Whenever I look back on my travels, my memories tend to be skewed slightly in the positive, a mental retouching, if you will. The wonderful moments are brought in technicolor to the forefront while the less than stellar memories tend to fade into something more innocuous, if they’re remembered at all. But the bad, disappointing, [...]